In a scathing U.S. government inspector general’s report, President Joe Biden was said to have wasted $230 million of taxpayer money on a harebrained maritime operation in Gaza intended to accelerate humanitarian aid to Palestinians displaced by war. In sum, Biden’s “temporary pier operated intermittently for about 20 days” and was then embarrassingly shut down.
On March 7, Biden announced that he had directed “the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters.” The operation came in response to criticism from his left-wing base for U.S. support to Israel’s military operations against Hamas after the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 invasion of Israel in which some 1200 Israeli civilians were killed and 253 others were…
